POCATELLO — A Pocatello hearing officer is expected to make a decision by Tuesday regarding the Islamic Society of Southeastern Idaho’s request for a conditional use permit to establish a mosque on South Fifth Avenue. Meanwhile, a public debate on the proposal has been going on for days.

Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) said Sunday that it wouldn’t matter if President Barack Obama were a Muslim. “It wouldn’t matter if he is,” Labrador said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “What we need to look at is the policies”

On the flimsiest of associations hatemongers pounce on any Muslim even contemplating running for office. They will go to great lengths to create and fabricate guilt-by-association smears, trying to cast the said Muslim as a ‘evil-scary-Islamizing-terrorist.’